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Title: Valley of Dreams
Author: Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
Release Date: August 11, 2007 [EBook #22301]
Language: English
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VALLEY OF DREAMS
Captain Harrison of the _Ares_ expedition turned away from the little
telescope in the bow of the rocket. -Two weeks more, at the most,- he
remarked. -Mars only retrogrades for seventy days in all, relative to
the earth, and we’ve got to be homeward bound during that period, or
wait a year and a half for old Mother Earth to go around the sun and
catch up with us again. How’d you like to spend a winter here?-
Dick Jarvis, chemist of the party, shivered as he looked up from his
notebook. -I’d just as soon spend it in a liquid air tank!- he averred.
-These eighty-below zero summer nights are plenty for me.-
-Well,- mused the captain, -the first successful Martian expedition
ought to be home long before then.-
-Successful if we get home,- corrected Jarvis. -I don’t trust these
cranky rockets--not since the auxiliary dumped me in the middle of Thyle
last week. Walki...